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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (237680)6/18/2005 5:32:32 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) of 1572956
 
The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism

Howard Zinn


The notion of American exceptionalism—that the United States alone has the right, whether by divine sanction or moral obligation, to bring civilization, or democracy, or liberty to the rest of the world, by violence if necessary—is not new. It started as early as 1630 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when Governor John Winthrop uttered the words that centuries later would be quoted by Ronald Reagan. Winthrop called the Massachusetts Bay Colony a “city upon a hill.” Reagan embellished a little, calling it a “shining city on a hill.”

The idea of a city on a hill is heartwarming. It suggests what George Bush has spoken of: that the United States is a beacon of liberty and democracy. People can look to us and learn from and emulate us.
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